It looks like movie theaters will have the opportunity to reopen here in Los Angeles County next week.
The Covid-19 numbers from LA County today fall for the first time ever in the red level of Gavin Newsom’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy. Deadline’s Tom Tapp reports that if Los Angeles can maintain its Covid-19 numbers at that level for just another week, it will be able to reopen several sectors – including 25% or 100 people with cinemas, whichever is.
Two more of California’s five largest provinces by population – Orange and San Bernardino – also had a red number this week, and as LA could cause theaters to reopen if they do so again next week. These regions and LA make up 15 million of the state’s 40 million inhabitants.
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LA – and many other regions in California, may also open earlier than next Tuesday.
The California Department of Public Health recently revealed that once the state has administered 2 million vaccine doses in disadvantaged neighborhoods, it will make it much easier to move from the press to the red level. Instead of less than seven daily cases per 100,000 inhabitants, provinces should move just under 10 cases per 100,000.
What’s more, the change will be retroactive and add a week’s credit for each province that missed out on a case between seven and ten per 100,000 inhabitants.
The rankings will be updated one day after California crossed 2 million shots fired in the bottom economic quartile. The group fell just 1.9 million short on Tuesday. That could mean a big announcement during Governor Gavin Newsom’s state of the nation address Tuesday night.
In addition to Los Angeles, the eight additional counties ranging from seven to ten daily cases per 100,000 in both of the last two list updates, while also meeting the positive requirements of the test, Colusa, Contra Costa, Mendocino, Orange, San Benito, San Bernardino, Siskiyou and Sonoma. Amador was below 10 per 100,000 last week, but jumped up again this week.
The news comes in the wake of the opening of cinemas in New York, after more than 50 weeks of downtime during the pandemic, with a return of $ 1 million in the 5 to 7 March. Like NYC, Los Angeles’ movie theaters have been closed since mid-March last year. There was a moment last summer when it looked like they might reopen, before Newsom closed the province again due to Covid cases, as Independence Day approached. While Los Angeles County never reopened cinemas, there was a period in which the counties of Orange and Ventura did in time for the late summer release of Warner Bros. Tenet. During the pandemic, drive-in theaters were largely open in LA County.
However, do not blow any pompoms for Los Angeles’ movie theaters yet. The country must decide for itself whether it is good to continue here after it meets the state’s requirements.
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That said, it would not be shocking to see the LA exhibition market ignite over the weekend of March 19-21. No. 1 exhibitor AMC has been very aggressive about reopening its cinemas in cities that have transitioned to less restricted Covid closure levels, but Regal remains closed, and it is likely that some other chains such as Arclight will remain so until more feature products of the major studios available. For example, there were two wide studio releases over the weekend – Disney’s Raya and the last dragon and Lionsgate’s Chaos Stap– but it’s not the weekend and will only be on March 26 when Universal has their Bob Odenkirk action movie No one. After that Easter weekend starts with Warner Bros / HBO Max / Legendary’s Godzilla teen Kong on March 31 followed by Sony / Screen Gems’ The unholy on Good Friday, April 2nd.
To be eligible for the red level, a country must have less than seven daily cases per 100,000 inhabitants. On Tuesday, LA County recorded 6.9 cases per 100,000 notes daily. The daily business rate is adjusted for each country based on dozens of factors. As a result, LA’s adjusted business rate is even better, at 5.2. It will have to fall below 4 per 100,000 to be eligible for the even less limited orange level.